Pacific Professionals Inc. Website - Practice Appraisals
Veterinary Practice Transition & Appraisal Specialists
Pacific Professionals, Inc.
Rick Wattles, DVM
Practice Analyst/ Appraiser
Chief Financial Officer
View Qualifications
  • Performed over 534
    practice appraisals and
    sales valuations

  • 375 medical equipment
    valuations

  • 438 practice income
    projections for buyers
    and lenders

  • Certified: Institute of
    Business Appraisers,
    Inc.

  • Chief Analyst and
    Valuator of the
    corporation involved in
    the sale of over 404
    veterinary practices

  • Licensed and
    accredited
    veterinarian, state of
    California

  • Certificates for Levels
    I, II and III Business
    Valuations

  • Certificate in the
    Uniform Standards of
    Professional Appraisal
    Practice

  • Candidate for Certified
    Business Appraiser and
    Certificate in
    Accounting
Veterinary Practice Appraisals
Reasons for an appraisal include:

  • Buying or selling of a practice or interest in a practice,
  • Buy-sell agreements,
  • Future management comparison,
  • Estate planning,
  • Insurance,
  • Dissolutions, and
  • Property distribution.  

The appraisal requires selective research into the relevant market area, the
assembly of financial and practice data, application of appropriate analytical
methods, and knowledge, experience and professional judgment necessary to
form a conclusion of fair market value.
    1) Five years’ company Profit and Loss statements, Balance Sheet for  last
    fiscal year, Five years’ tax returns with depreciation schedules;
    2) General practice information: Practice Information Form;
    3) Current equipment list: Capital Equipment Inventory and Value.  
    4) Copy of current lease or legal description of property;
    5) Area map with location of the subject practice and other practices;
    6) Relocation package from local Chamber of Commerce.

We will provide:
    1) Necessary forms and worksheets for your information from above;
    2) On-site visit; including interview with owner, necessary photos, and a visit
    to the surrounding  community;
    3) Consultation with attorney, accountant and management as required to
    complete the project;
    4) Evaluation, reconciliation and application of appropriate analytic
    techniques to the above information to give you a figure for fair market
    value.

A final written report with two professionally bound copies containing an  
explanatory text of 8 to 10 pages, several exhibits of financial and production
data including charts, appraisal worksheet data, comparable sales' comparisons
data, an equipment appraisal, local demographic data and certification pages.  
The typical page count of the total report ranges from 80-100 pages.
Pacific Professionals Inc. Contact Information - Appraisals
Pacific Professionals, Inc  •  (805) 524-3195  •  Fax: (805) 524-3192  •  pacproinc@aol.com
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Rick Wattles, DVM